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Friday, November 9, 2012

Airport News

Lambert Airport's Terminal 1 Entrances Get Makeovers

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is overhauling two Terminal 1 entrances the Good Friday tornado damaged on April 22, 2011.

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport began work this week on a $695,000 project to overhaul two Terminal 1 entrances. The Good Friday tornado badly damaged both entrance ways in 2011 and created an opportunity to redesign the terminal’s lower level entrances, airport officials said. The airport, which is minutes from Hazelwood, plans to build all-glass enclosed walkways that will provide natural light to the walkways and baggage claim area below. St. Louis-based C. Rallo Contracting Co. Inc. is the contractor for the project. Eastman Chemical Co., which acquired St. Louis-based Solutia this summer, will provide the glass panels for the walkway. The company’s glass panels were also used in the replacement glass for the Terminal 1 vaulted…

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